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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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Fate Peace Ubuntu
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand